AMON AMARTH To Guest On Sweden's 'Close-Up' Radio Show

March 14, 2011

This coming Tuesday's (March 15) edition of the Swedish radio show "Close-Up" will be dedicated to Swedish death metallers AMON AMARTH. Vocalist Johan Hegg and guitarist Johan Söderberg will appear as guests in the studio for the whole duration of the program, along with show host Nicki Wicked, and there will be lengthy interviews about the band's career and its new album, "Surtur Rising", as well as new and old AMON AMARTH music.

"Close-Up" is co-produced by long-running Swedish metal magazine Close-Up and will air on nationwide on the Bandit Rock radio station (as well as online for foreign listeners) on Tuesday, March 15 between 10 p.m. and 12 a.m. (midnight) CET.

For broadcast frequencies (in Sweden only),click here.

To listen online (worldwide),go to this location.

A track-by-track review of "Surtur Rising", the eighth studio album from AMON AMARTH, can be found at RadioMetal.com. Named in tribute to Surtur, leader of the fire giants of Muspelheim ("flame land") and the oldest being in the nine worlds of Norse mythology, the record, which is due in North America on March 29 via Metal Blade Records, features 10 tracks of sword-wielding, fist-pumping, hyper climactic battle anthems. The follow-up to 2008's monolithic "Twilight Of The Thunder God" full-length was recorded again at Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden with Jens Bogren and features strikingly brutal cover art by Tom Thiel.

The official album landing page can be acccessed at this location. The new web site, dedicated exclusively to "Surtur Rising", includes album pre-orders for North America and Europe as well as up-to-the-minute news updates, tour announcements, videos and singles leading up to the record's release.

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